Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has confessed through a video recording to the abduction of the high school girls. Subsequently, protest leader of #BringBackOurGirls campaign was released Monday afternoon.

The patience of Nigerian First Lady, similarly named Patience Jonathan , took her to National TV "News Ten" on May 4. The First Lady was said to have "wept" on television prior to ordering the arrest of Naomi Mutu Nyadar, leader of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign rally.

Nelson Mandela tried to do that all his life when he was alive: to make peace with the political rivals. His death proved his motto in life once again as political opponents share the podium just in the memory of Mandela.

A few months ago, when reports came out that former South African President Nelson Mandela was dying, the family's good name was tarnished when news came out that even before the freedom icon breathed his last, members of the clan were feuding where to bury him.

An Australian man was shot dead on Sunday, by suspected robbers, some of them in police uniform, in the upmarket Runda estate of Nairobi, Kenya. The man identified as Patrick John Richer, 39, was the creative director of an international advertising agency and had been working in Africa for about a decade. He along with his Kenyan wife, Lesili Richer had moved into the house only two months back.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously approved the extension of the African Union (AU) deployment of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) until Oct. 31, 2014. The UNSC has requested the AU expand AMISOM's force strength from 17,731 to a maximum of 22,126 uniformed personnel.

An Egyptian court ruling Tuesday, announcing the country's 3-month-old state of emergency, two days earlier than scheduled, has fuelled worries of renewed protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.